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venetia_sassy) wrote2013-12-06 11:38 pm
venetia_sassy) wrote2013-12-06 11:38 pm
Almost there!
First trial of the spiralizer was successful! BLT zucchini noodles (I didn't roast the tomatoes, just chopped them and cooked them for a bit with the garlic.)
We put up the Christmas tree tonight. Or rather, Mum brought the various components up from the garage, then watched me figure out the new tree lights and decorate the tree, with occasional advice. (I remember when I was way too small to do any of these things! So weird.) We played the new Christmas CD I'd bought for this - Katherine Jenkins' This Is Christmas. Highly enjoyable.
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The new boy was a perfectly nice dog ... he just wasn't very exciting? But he'd only been with us a few days. And Miss Shadow wasn't being nasty to him or vice versa - he even playbowed to her! She ignored him as usual. We took them along on our usual market outing and the new boy just cruised. It took months for Miss Shadow to be comfortable in crowds and around strange dogs but he was fine! Nothing seemed to faze him. Even when our lawn guy came over to do some whippersnipping, the new boy just stood a few metres away and watched. We had to persuade him to come inside.
We thought of going to the main kennels to see a couple of other dogs and the bouncy black girl after the new boy's foster carers got back from their camping holiday (with their dogs!) but things got busy ... then the bouncy girl went on trial and turned out to not be cat-friendly after all ... and we laughed at the new boy's crazy zoomies around the yard ... and we took the dogs to the pet store to get a new squeaky toy each and he was intrigued by a honking duck but couldn't carry it because of his muzzle, while Miss Shadow picked a squeaky pig and carried it to the register, squeaking it all the way, prompting exclamations of, "Oh, that is so cute!" from fellow customers ... and while they played with their own toys at first, they did share later ... and when we talked over their behaviours with the foster carer later, and with some fosterers from another greyhound program (we ran into them one day when out with the dogs), it seemed that while they weren't actually playing with each other, the rest of their interactions were progressing really well.
They're not food-possessive, or toy-possessive (except for the first day when Miss Shadow was establishing herself as boss), they swap beds, they travel in the car together easily, Miss Shadow has started to lick the new boy's face like she did the Boyo's ... she still looks at him like he's insane when he runs zoomies in the back yard but she'll run with him when we go to our friend's place with acreage.
And while the new boy is definitely the most easy-going, unflappable dog I've ever met, he has relaxed a bit more around us now, we can see it. He's yoga-dogging a lot more! And it's no longer such a shock to us that he's not the Boyo. I think that did play in, possibly even for Miss Shadow as well. We did intend to wait longer and if she hadn't been so ill from pining, we would have.
It's not quite official yet but it's looking that way. We've got a new dog. And tomorrow I will tell you more about him and post some photos. Because he is really very cute!
We put up the Christmas tree tonight. Or rather, Mum brought the various components up from the garage, then watched me figure out the new tree lights and decorate the tree, with occasional advice. (I remember when I was way too small to do any of these things! So weird.) We played the new Christmas CD I'd bought for this - Katherine Jenkins' This Is Christmas. Highly enjoyable.
*
The new boy was a perfectly nice dog ... he just wasn't very exciting? But he'd only been with us a few days. And Miss Shadow wasn't being nasty to him or vice versa - he even playbowed to her! She ignored him as usual. We took them along on our usual market outing and the new boy just cruised. It took months for Miss Shadow to be comfortable in crowds and around strange dogs but he was fine! Nothing seemed to faze him. Even when our lawn guy came over to do some whippersnipping, the new boy just stood a few metres away and watched. We had to persuade him to come inside.
We thought of going to the main kennels to see a couple of other dogs and the bouncy black girl after the new boy's foster carers got back from their camping holiday (with their dogs!) but things got busy ... then the bouncy girl went on trial and turned out to not be cat-friendly after all ... and we laughed at the new boy's crazy zoomies around the yard ... and we took the dogs to the pet store to get a new squeaky toy each and he was intrigued by a honking duck but couldn't carry it because of his muzzle, while Miss Shadow picked a squeaky pig and carried it to the register, squeaking it all the way, prompting exclamations of, "Oh, that is so cute!" from fellow customers ... and while they played with their own toys at first, they did share later ... and when we talked over their behaviours with the foster carer later, and with some fosterers from another greyhound program (we ran into them one day when out with the dogs), it seemed that while they weren't actually playing with each other, the rest of their interactions were progressing really well.
They're not food-possessive, or toy-possessive (except for the first day when Miss Shadow was establishing herself as boss), they swap beds, they travel in the car together easily, Miss Shadow has started to lick the new boy's face like she did the Boyo's ... she still looks at him like he's insane when he runs zoomies in the back yard but she'll run with him when we go to our friend's place with acreage.
And while the new boy is definitely the most easy-going, unflappable dog I've ever met, he has relaxed a bit more around us now, we can see it. He's yoga-dogging a lot more! And it's no longer such a shock to us that he's not the Boyo. I think that did play in, possibly even for Miss Shadow as well. We did intend to wait longer and if she hadn't been so ill from pining, we would have.
It's not quite official yet but it's looking that way. We've got a new dog. And tomorrow I will tell you more about him and post some photos. Because he is really very cute!
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Listening to holiday music is totally okay though :-)
I'm so glad to hear things are looking up with the new dog. He sounds like such a sweet dog. I'm looking forward to seeing pics of him.
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Any Christmas decorations before December 1st though ... *shudders*
Final adoption money paid today! Papers on their way soon - and pictures up here very soon!
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Many props to you for putting up the holiday decorations. I'm a tad behind this year. /o\
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Oh, we've been later than this before! I've been weirdly efficient in some areas this season.
Be inspired by Frank's holiday grin!